Inside a Family Home Built Around A Secret Garden Courtyard (House Tour)
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- Distinctively robust and private, Cloister House I celebrates simple design and timelessness. MORQ creates a refuge inside a family home built around the idea of sanctuary, in a refreshing counterpoint to the busy street it sits upon.
“The idea of retreat is very much an aspect of the brief, and we felt that creating a fence and leaving the inside as a void creates a peaceful space,” says Andrea Quagliola, co-founder at MORQ. The home of grandparents, Cloister House I welcomes one inside a family home built around the notion of being able to comfortably house just two, as well as cater for lots of visitors.
Inside a family home built around a courtyard, the architecture feels almost fortress-like from approach. Its concrete structural face and concrete cladding comprise of steel that resembles the red earth that surrounds the Western Australia locale of Perth where the home sits, while the interior design combines Italian design nuances, as per Andrea’s roots.
The home is split into two distinct volumes - a space for just two people that relates to the central courtyard and a space for visiting family that relates to the rear of the home. This architecture enables the house to feel appropriate in smaller and larger settings, and a customised glazing system allows one to open and close the spaces as desired.
Once inside a family home built around an enclosed courtyard, thinly framed sliding windows that can be pulled away as needed welcome air and light into the interior or close to create a more intimate space. “The design of the courtyard is about the relationship between light and dark and the sense that the material was there before us and will remain after we are gone,” says Andrea.
The courtyard also supports cross-ventilation. “The most sustainable project is the project that never needs to be rebuilt, we aim for our projects to feel like not only have they have been there, but will be there, for a long time,” comments Andrea. As such, materials can age with the site and have the ability to reflect sunlight. The palette and materials are also largely informed by the wider story of Western Australia - so it also sits appropriately within the existing urban fabric.
MORQ creates a calm home that is robust and not precious, offering a vision of what it is like inside a family home built around the ideals of protection and retreat.
00:00 - Introduction to the Family Home
01:23 - An Interesting Family Brief
02:09 - A Walkthrough of the Home
03:22 - Incorporating the Idea of Retreat and Refuge
04:29 - The Evocative Material Palette
05:45 - Design Properties of the Courtyard
06:26 - Aiming for Sustainable and Durable Design
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Photography by Givlio Aristide.
Architecture by MORQ.
Build by Subiaco Homes.
Engineering by Hera Engineering
Filmed and Edited by The Local Project.
Production by The Local Project.
Location: Floreat, WA, Australia
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I actually love the purity of brutalist architecture and how they have softened it here with greenery that appears to be reclaiming the space.
I visited this house during the Open Houses Perth, and is truly an exceptional house. It understands the environment it sits upon perfectly. For anyone who is unfamiliar with Perth, its extremely hot, and the light is so incredibly bright, you can't have Sunglasses! I understand that need for darkness and escape from the light and heat, a refuge. The sunrises early by 5am in summer the sun is up - darkness is absolute if you want to sleep until 7am. This house was an inspiration for my own home, we painted walls darker, we went moodier, we went with that need to come home to a cocoon after a day spent in constant daylight and brightness. So, I get this house, and what it is doing, and it does it brilliantly. We live in bright light and constant sun probably 300 or more days a year... and sometimes we crave for an escape from it.
Looks like an underground Bunker.
Or a MORG.
Hunker
Nicest prison I've seen. How much yard time do the inmates get each day?
I love it and hate it at the same time. It's somewhere I'd love to stay at but not live in fulltime. I appreciate it for what it is, but it's too dark for every day. I would definitely feel secure whilst waiting out a storm! I do think it looked out of place on that street though, but I suppose if you're pushing the envelope, perhaps it's just right where it is?!
What a depressing building.
Wow. Wayyyyy too dark. It’s depressing.
Interesting house. It is so nice to see someone walking through the houses. It shows the proportions.
This is very cool to look at - this bunker-like space with textured brownish/greyish hued walls, streaks of sunlight traveling across the courtyard.... but would I want to live in a bunker? No way... you get little to no natural light, you get very dark courtyards, it's depressing. Nature is beautiful, sunlight is beautiful, blue skies - I want to see it, not be sheltered from it.
Agree.
The mass of the house against the tiny openings gives the building a secure feeling but also slightly imprisoned 😂 😂
Love the house. Perfect for someone like me- highly sensitive introvert
Strong design. The thought going into this built has served it’s purpose.
It's so interesting to hear the different perspectives on this. I feel a sense of cozy, retreat, and being nestled up in this house. I love the privacy of it and how all the plant matter brings more life in.
Loved it, wow. It gives like a post apocaliptic vibe but in a nice way, like the combination of nature and cocrete. Lovely.
Es una casa contraída sobre sí misma. El juego de la luz es demasiado sutil; abrumadoramente oscura. Es de una belleza triste y no invita a vivir en ella. Meditar?, quizás pero también se puede meditar bajo la luz cálida y libre de un lugar más amable. Gracias por compartir.
Love, love, love. Morq is making magic out here!
Andrea's explanation of the conceptual part of the architecture was excellent.
The architecture must be a spiritualist
Turn the lights on.
😂
😂
So you didn’t understand what the architect said just at the start of the video.
😂😂😂
Dude..😂😂
Seems like it was inspired by the architecture of Arrakis (Dune). I like the low light in the bedrooms as often you only sleep there but personally for me theres not enough natural light being allowed to permeate into the communal areas.
I'd have light wells or skylights as i feel I'd be using a lot of electric light despite the fact it looks like a sunny location.
It’s similar to the last place I saw from Morq. I want to stay there but I wouldn’t like to live there. I need to see the sky.
MORQ is probably my favourite design firm on the channel. The design philosophy behind each project is so fully fleshed out and intentional, and the execution is simply astounding.
The timelessness and tranquility of the design is simply beyond words.
This design lends transquility!
3:56 open and intimate at the same time. this main idea i am plan to design my future huse on
i love how they use the light as an art!
Le case di MORQ sono stupefacenti e spettacolari. Prendono l'architettura contemporanea e la spingono a livelli estremi, soprattutto dal punto di vista filosofico, e della concezione della casa. Non deve essere la vista esterna la protagonista della casa, ma deve essere la casa stessa protagonista. E' una casa che si adatta perfettamente ad un contesto cittadino dove il paesaggio naturale essenzialmente non è presente. Quando entri in casa il mondo lo devi lasciare fuori le mura. Ci sei solo tu, le mura e la luce con i suoi giochi. Non è una abitazione adatta a tutti, è una casa con un carattere estremo, e come tutti gli estremi o la ami o la odi. Il lusso qui oltre che nelle rifiniture si trova nella sua essenza e nella sua contemporaneità. Tra 60 anni questa casa sarà sempre contemporanea. Grazie davvero per portare il genio italiano nel mondo e farci riconoscere anche a 14 mila km da casa! Andrea spero davvero che leggerai questo commento solo per te.
The Architect used the word ‘refuge’ in describing this project, and perhaps that’s just what his client wanted. Watching the news here in the US that often show homes of the affluent being broken into (through glass doors and windows) makes me aware that this sort of design is both practical and necessary in today's world.
Too brutal, too dark, too monolithic, and quite frankly too ugly, for me.
Timeless
Bravoo ! C'est merveilleux !
I love this design. It totally belongs in a suburban area: giving the family privacy and natural views at the same time.
Stands out like a sore thumb amidst the suburbia. Very little views. But it's a provocative design and invokes the feelings intended by the architect. Melancholy mixed with tranquility and simplicity. Well done.
i love this kind of project! So authentic, earthly, straightforward!
Amazing Family home
As a vampire this feels like a dream 🧛💡🌓
😂
Impeccable.
Looks like something Gru would live in from the minions movie.
Wow, beautiful
As architects, we should design for the light
Beautiful!
I love the materiality and concrete in general, but in my personal opinion it's way to dark and depressing. A little bit of natural light would really transform this place. From the video it feels too much like prison/cathedral basement/bunker.
My opinion is same
i love this project.
I love this house drive past it often….just not sure of it being very Floreat. More City Beach or North Perth-Highgate.
Love love love coitus house
THIS is how you do brutalism. Love it!
I'm a fan of brutalism, but I'm not a fan of where this was done and who it was for. Maybe for a younger couple outside the neighborhood this would work, but it looks like a building rather than a home compared to everything else around it. Also what happens to the house when the grandparents pass on?
Seems like they already have that sorted, I cannot see an old couple living here.
Parece un lugar de reclusión. Debe ser deprimente vivir en esa casa.
I can't see any overflows for the box gutters? Madness.
💚💚💚
BEAUTIFUL OASIS!🎄🎄🎄🎄
Although I love a lot of the material, I love the concrete. I love the shadows. I love the warmth, but this is the most stifling I’ve ever felt watching an inside architectural program. I felt very caved in like the walls were gonna fall on me. I felt like I couldn’t breathe properly when you look outside of the windows or the glass doors you look directly into another building or another building there’s no type of expanse to help you breathe this is terrible, but this darkness is sucking the life out of you. This is very depressing.
My wife says "looks like a very clean prison". I agree. Place is depressing as hell.
EXCELLENT! AMAZING DESIGN . . . ONLY ONE THING, WHERE'S THE GARAGE?
Interesting example of Brutalism but so much shadow and darkness makes it an almost sinister cave.
Cool design! I like the darkness and, LOVE the woodwork and windows. But the look of bare rammed concrete walls is not for me personally.
Muito linda e moderna.
absolutely terrible
Beautiful and cool to live in but I'm over architects who try to kid themselves and the public that mass concrete is sustainable. This could have been made with hempcrete and lime plaster for a truly sustainable long lived building
I would get depressed in this house😢
❤❤❤
Nice Jail 😵💫
oh my GOD.
Some good ideas used very badly on such a small lot. Make the footprint at least double, really plant some useable courtyards and the idea might be great for a difficult neighbourhood with no need to look out much. The token cycad already looks battered, it deserved better.
This house is perfect for for a zombie apocalypse. If you are inside, you are unaware of what's happening outdoors. But it's beautiful though
Beautiful home. To me it’s giving movie Atonement vibes but getting fucked in every room on everything. Maybe it’s the darkness and earthiness. I also feel what else would you do in that house.
Interesting house but boy does it look dark and drab with the concrete. Don’t know if I could live in everyday it’s very bleak.
ps…. and where is the cloister?
Way to dark, but can understand that in very hot climates it makes sense
The second song name, please!
What did he say the concrete is called?
It is very nice but it’s very dark
bunker
Did they forget to finish the project? It's giving 'construction site'.
Interior is gorgeous but the exterior looks like a MORG. 🤭
Cool, but I only see walls
To each his own I suppose, but reminds me of prison cells I see in movies 😅. Well as long as the dwellers are happy. 😊😊
i think contextually this belongs in the desert or in the woods on its own.
at first i hated it: it has no context to the surrounding area, i find that to be disrespectful. the concrete is abrasive. the kitchen does not facilitate family gathering
i do respect the concept: the materials were thought through for functional purposes, the cave-like aesthetic is where i would like to be for a retreat but i don't know if i'd like every wall to be the concrete.
бункер на земле
жестко
но есть своя эстетка
Why so dark?
Yeah, NO
😢pity that all we learn in arcitecture gone😂
Completely unsympathetic to surrounding vernacular, no?
I can appreciate the aesthetic, but I will feel depressed after a while in a space like this. Sunlight is lacking too much for me to enjoy it. It feels too closed in and out of place, not harmonious at all, but that's my opinion!
Great for vampires
Yes, amazing design. BUT, the idea of "retreat" seemed to have morphed into "bunker." Like a German WW2 bunker with purge proof walls. Me thinks these folks don't like neighbors.
Made for vampires😎
Fuggly
3ven the cat is sad
way to dark for me. Really missing the day ight
This house looks like a coffin. Perfect for claustrophobia.
Con le vostre scritte non si vede quasi nulla
This is a house for a really introvert person…a prison😂😅
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Brutal, oppressive, & nightmarish.
Dear god...this is like a whole lot of concrete slabs and not much light...what the hell is going on with this place? Im getting anxiety just lookin g at this...have people lost their minds that they think this is a high-end liveable property?
No
Hitler's bunker. Can almost hear the Soviets closing in
From the outside, it looks like a military bunker dropped into a neighborhood. The architects clearly had no respect for the integrity or the neighborhood, nor the neighbors. And the inside looks like a slightly upgraded prison. What a cold, sterile, and unwelcoming house. There’s nothing home about this house. 🤮
This is worst house on Local Project by a large margin.
Sorry man, that’s not it. I would be pissed if I look out the window and that’s my neighbors house let alone live in that prison . No disrespect, I’m sure you are good at what you are doing, just my honest opinion.
I strongly disagree with the principle by which the house was designed. The most sustainable project is not one that does not need to be rebuilt but one that can easily be replaced.
A house made not to be lived in, too dark, too much concrete (poor planet) and impractical.
It would be better to think more about the people who inhabit the houses and less about the people who look at them.
You build unfinished house with almost no windos and you spin it as "retreat" and "refuge" with "evocative materials".
What a load of bull. It's a glorified tomb.
I like brutalism as much as the next guy, but this is too extreme for me. Way too dark. Not enough airflow. Much too claustrophobic.
If I had to live here, I'd feel like I was being punished for something.